Tombstone Trilogy: Fool's Gold

The Wild, Wild, West with a Zombie Twist! Gold has been discovered in Tombstone. With the murder of Caleb, the poor miner who discovered it, US Marshal Mason Sadler must now bring the criminal to justice. Enlisting the help of Belle, the beautiful Madam of the Bird Cage Theater, Mason gets unexpected support from two dead conquistadors who are not quite ready to part with the gold. More

Book 1 of the Tombstone Trilogy - The Wild, Wild, West with a zombie twist! If you love airships, cool machines, western shootouts and walking dead, you'll be hooked by this trilogy thriller!

US Marshal Mason Sadler has a great hustle going on with the vivacious and lovely Belle Dubois, the madam of the Bird Cage Theater in Tombstone, Arizona Territory. She keeps the outlaws occupied until he conveniently shows up to arrest them after which she and Mason split the reward.

Their business arrangement is going rather well until the wealthy inventor and archaeologist Henry Mitchell decides to make a play for Belle’s attention and affection. After all, he’s single while Mason is stuck in a marriage to a woman who prefers laudanum to marital bliss. But does Henry really desire Belle or is his interest a deflection from his true intentions, for gold from the Seven Cities of Cibola has been discovered in the mining hills of Tombstone. Two men desperately want to keep the discovery a secret – Caleb, the old miner who found the treasure, and Henry who has spent the past several years hunting for it. Unfortunately for Caleb, Henry has no qualms about using whatever means necessary to take what he wants, even if it means murder and kidnapping.

Regrettably for Belle, she eventually gets in the way. With the help of two Chiricahua machinists, Mason sets out to stop Henry’s escape and rescue Belle.

But everyone has failed to take into consideration two dead conquistadors who are not quite ready to part with the gold.

pdmac is the author of the epic Science Fiction/ Fantasy series Wolf 359, which garnered 2nd place in Science Fiction in the Bookbzz.com Prize Writer of the year 2015 competition. Additionally, he is the author of the Steampunk Westerns Fool’s Gold and An Ounce of Lead, a dystopian novel Rebirth of Angels, a novella Ctrl Z the Do Over Stone, and a book of poetry – a young man no more. A diverse author, writer, and editor, he has also edited a Literature anthology, served as managing editor of an archaeology magazine, ghost-written an autobiography, and has had poems, short stories, articles, and editorials published in various literary journals, magazines and newspapers. His most recent short stories appear in the Short Story America anthologies III and IV, Poets in Hell (ed., Janet Morris), The Mulberry Fork Review, and the Fantasy Anthology Chronicles of Mirstone. He has a MA in Creative Writing and a Ph.D. in Theology, and is a member of the Steampunk Writers and Artists Guild, and the Georgia Writers Association. He has also sung back-up for Broadway plays, provided voice for radio plays, and acted and directed theater stage productions. In his off time, he and his wife race mountain bikes, kayak, and occasionally backpack sections of the Appalachian Trail.